Domination Black
FEARBRINGER

January 2006
Released: 2005, Poison Arrow Records
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviewer: Luxi Lahtinen

Here it is. Probably the most eagerly awaited album on my personal īmust-getī list in 2005: Domination Black and these horror-oozing metallersī debut album titled FEARBRINGER. You obviously want to know so curiously whatīs that thing in them - and/or in this album exactly what makes them so special to me, am I correct? Well, I gotta assume you like the voice of Rob Halford? Or Tim "Ripper" Owens? Or letīs say, even King Diamond? And Kingīs music has always been highly respected in your unholy books? And you have always liked slices of Thrash Metal as well - or simply a well-crafted Heavy Metal has always melted your pants somewhat 100% perfectly? Hmmm... then you are on a right path.



Domination Black pretty much have answered to every single modest prayer that I have had towards their debut album in advance since I became familiar with these fellowsī truly impressive 4-track demo titled FEAR RELOADED last year. The bandīs kinda heavily Judas Priest -reeking, thrashy Heavy Metal obviously neither is anything new nor extremely unique or original on this planet, but itīs no denying either it has got all those delicious and mind-teasing ingredients for a Metal album that makes it a real stand-out debut album, just no matter how you look at it. In a way I hoped, silently deep down in me that Judas Priestīs ANGEL OF RETRIBUTION would have been that kind of an album that could have sounded at least a bit like Domination Black -campīs FEARBRINGER - yīknow, being a tad heavier, more aggressive, catchier and overall a bit more īto-the-pointī -effort, capturing an attention of a listener instantly and leaving no holes open for escape since you have entered in.



Honestly, thereīs not one single song on FEARBRINGER that sounds like a filler or anything alike, being included for the album to gain more lenght for it - just for the sake of the albumīs length itself. Every single song out of total of 9 songs having been featured for FEARBRINGER, sounds like a real masterpiece of its own. Their songs arenīt any sort of īgrowersī either; on the contrary they have this extraordinary fine tendency catch your ears right away, guide you through a host of great things in Metal music in general and make your journey absolutely worthwhile ītil you fingers are about realize to push the īRepeatī button again... and again... and all over again. Some albums can be THAT addictive... they really can, I can tell. DBīs FEARBRINGER is simply one of those albums that kind of never loose grip over you; it keeps your ears tightly and determinedly nailed to it ītil your life-time parther looses her/his interest toward you completely and vanishes like a miserable fart to the vast Sahara -desert. Songs like a creepy, highly Thrashiferous yet punishing "Ultra-Speed Destructor", a slowly building-up yet nicely epic-like "Traitor Within", always so wonderfully haunting "The Psycho" and a monumental ballad type of tune "Frozen Tears" are nothing but definitely diamond-hard proofs for this fivesomeīs capabilities to create uncompromising and always highly addictive Metal songs, based on some of the finest Heavy Metalīs cliches. And if that doesnīt satisfy you enough, you donīt know a slightest what a true Heavy Metal is all about. Therefore shall it be proclaimed boldly that FEARBRINBER is a pure, 1st quality masterpiece of well-penned down Metal of both the past and the future.



WARNING! FEARBRINGER contains 9 songs of pure awesomeness that may cause positively addictive convulsions in your brain!